When you perform misogi, your spiritual part is lifted up to the heavens, and your raw animal spirits descend into the earth [ – make contact again with the earth – ] and then, over time: as you perform misogi for months and for years, your raw animal spirits gradually re-join your spiritual part.
– – – O’Sensei, probably audio-recorded by by Masatake Fujita, transcribed by Sadateru Arikawa Shihan, published in Aiki-Shinzui, p. 80